My body: OMG I am so exhausted from traveling all day yesterday!! Me: I mean, the plane did most of the work My body: No I’m pretty sure I walked the whole way! 2500 miles! Carrying all that luggage!!! Me: You literally sat in a chair My body: I’m going to be nonfunctional for several days now sorry

My father couldn’t sleep on planes and back in the day they weren’t packed in as much so he spent overnight flights pacing up and down the aisle. He used to joke that he walked all the way to Europe!

Somehow I drove the 300 miles from San Antonio airport to Spacex Boca Chica by 10:00 am Thursday. This should have given me nearly a full workday. But by 2:00 pm I was shaking and staggering.

I travel for a living and it’s WORK. 1000 mi of driving and 2700 miles flying last week. The environment forces you to be constantly attentive, watchful and aware. This takes energy and wears you down. Plus hauling my weight in luggage around.

Dehydration messes people up more than they realize. Now that I live in high desert it's easier since I'm acclimated to altitude and low humidity. Even then flying is exhausting. For me it's the near constant sensory overload.

Your body knows the distance it traveled.

The ten/fifteen minutes interacting with TSA sucks all the life force from me. I spend the flight recovering just from THAT.

I always remember the line from The Full Monty: “It’s amazing how tiring it is doing nowt”

What's the bio-science on this? Being exhausted after driving I get: huge mental load.

Flying does beat the poop out of one - - Spanada is a good hydrator, once home.

Why is this so real tho